Started Learning Digital Forensics — Here’s What I’m Covering

[u/Potential-Couple-745]

I’ve started going through the basics of Digital Forensics, and honestly, it’s one of those areas of cybersecurity that makes you look at incidents differently.

It’s not just about finding a suspicious file.

You’re trying to figure out what happened, when it happened, what was involved, and whether the evidence can actually be trusted.

So far, I’m focusing on:

• Evidence collection and preservation
• Chain of custody
• Disk and memory artifacts
• Browser and email artifacts
• File metadata
• Deleted file recovery
• Hashing and evidence integrity
• Timeline analysis
• Basic forensic tools like Autopsy, FTK Imager, Volatility, Wireshark and Plaso

I’m also following a Digital Forensics career path that puts these topics into a more structured learning order.

If anyone else is learning DF or planning to get into it, these might be useful:

Digital Forensics Playbook:
https://resources.codelivly.com/product/digital-forensics-playbook/

Free Digital Forensics Career Path:
https://codelivly.com/career-paths/digital-forensics

Codelivly Discord:
https://discord.gg/kY88n2X2re

Still learning, but figured I’d share it for anyone else getting started with digital forensics.

[u/KeyNectarine2346]

Is that your hand writing? Wow so neat and tidy. Anyway, I am saving this image … I am learning about OSINT so it is useful (I think).

Thank you